Deborah Kaplan thinks this is interesting:

The complex
nature of tables relative to limited rendering area of typical reading
systems has led to the worse practice of excluding the data in favor
of images of the table, however. How helpful is a picture of data to
someone who cannot see it?

The motivating hope behind this practice seems to be that images
will take away rendering issues on small screens, but don’t fall into
this trap. Not only are you taking the content away from readers who
can’t see the table, but even if you can see the images they often get
scaled down to illegibility and/or burst out the side of the reading
are

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